Paranoid Like Me - Cowboy Troy

My plans for success have gone up in smoke

Mocking like neurotic laughter with psychotic jokes

Hollywood dreams glisten then fade

While Vegas luck sits there and bakes in the shade

Sometimes I feel alone

Even though I know the voice on the phone

Plans of my demise have been discussed

By those unknown and those I trust.

Venom drips from the vipers fangs

I can tell by the way they say my name

Promises come with the entangling stipulations

Hidden meanings and manipulations.

False friends and enemies true

Predict tryin’to brave the doom

To blister this music some others insight

the flames of resistance within to ignite

I’m scorching the pillows of doubt when I rest

Soothing my ego battered and stressed

Many gasping for air apparent

Some sincere others uncaring

Congrats from Charlatans often display

An aroma rampant with rot and decay

I’m smiling on the outside But crying in my chest

I’m trying to be a man 'cause I want to do my best

I’m forging on defyin’defeat

The words I speak are bringing the heat

Hoping my tongue’s not too rated and then

Weary of damaging personal wind

I avoid succumbing to the pity and the fuss,

while my brain fights off the rust and the dust.

I gotta pick my battles sometimes I can’t win 'em.

'cause I’m just a man, flesh and venom.

(musical interlude)

You see I had to testify before the FCC.

So you could hear me on something besides CD or an MP3.

Some tried to top me but can’t stop me.

They’re hopin’and prayin’that one day my label drops me.

But I keep comin back again and again and again

Till you hear duh duh duhda duh duh.

You’ll start lookin at me like MY name was Rocky

Convicted of dreaming in the court of public opinion

Soon you’ll see — if you’re paranoid like me